 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Oak Tree Shilling. N.7, Cr.1b-D. R-5. 72.0 gns. About Uncirculated. An outstanding specimen, on a par with the Garrett coin, nicer than Hain's, Norweb's, and just about every other one seen including the Noe plate coin (for which see next lot) but excepting an Unc on a large flan bought by an advanced west coast collector at the October, 2000 Baltimore coin show. Both the obverse and reverse are a light silver gray in color with some spectacular iridescent rose and blue toning around the peripheries. Good tree with full trunk detail and most of the branches clear and bold. Letters in the peripheral legend on this side about as sharp as ever seen (see the Noe plate coin, next lot, for example).
Reverse about as sharp as seen on any Noe 7 with most of the letters in the peripheral legend clear and bold save for the tops at the upper left and extreme right due to the late state of the die at the letter position and the clipping done at the Mint at the former. Struck from a little later state of the reverse than seen on the Noe plate coin, the breaks here through the tops of NDA more pronounced now.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Collection.
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